Not sure if all of you folk have been out to "Officer". 15 years ago it was nothing but paddocks… now its Paddocks and 1000 houses, one medical centre, a maccas and some panel beaters!!! The Cardinia Shire have done ZERO infrastructure development and it's just a mess.
This picture sums it up. Princes Hwy, speed limit 80km an hour… long grass and a Kid (and man) sitting in the gutter… waiting for the bus (No Shelter or safety).
Its a disgrace how many suburbs are like this in Australia
Posted by twowholebeefpatties
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Seeing this occur far too often nowadays .. it really isn’t that hard for council to add a bench there.
There’s no bench where my local bus stop is either. Would be nice if there was one for sure, especially since I have back issues and it’s painful for me to stand for an extended amount of time.
cant beat that nostalgic feeling of being a teenager with no car and nothing but concrete and a hot breeze
i used to live in carrum downs and some stops didn’t have seats either hahahaha. love the place
Fk that. I hate how those new developments outer suburb areas are so vehicle friendly and the rest of us who rely on public transport eat shit
yup. my bro lived in this estate. terrible place. 15-20 min drive to anything, more like 30 during peak hours. no where is a close walk. train line just out in the open, no safety barriers, but the train station is also a 20 min drive away either side. barely any ubers. buses come whenever they please. schools are 4-5km at least away too. no parks, playgrounds, bush or trails. no hills. just sprawling estate of volume builds and empty plots.
U can’t expect jacinta to approve bus stops and machete bins.
Every time I drive through Officer it strikes me how desolate and depressing it looks. It really has nothing going for it, it’s just a place for people to exist.
I lived in Pakenham during from 2007-2017 and I remember getting the bus and public transport, it was not a fun experience!
It’s also crazy how car dependent Pakenham and Officer is, seriously we are not the United States. Glad I got out of the South East.
There’s a road (I think it’s bridge rd) that leads from the near city centre to near the Officer club.
All the new development houses look the same. No front fence, grass strip front yard, footpath and nature strip next to a 70 or 80km zoned rd just waiting for a kid to run out a get hit
I’ve embraced umbrella life. I now bring a sun umbrella when walking, waiting at the bus stop etc.
Sadly, this is still better than some bus stops, even further towards the CBD.
Some don’t even have concrete.
And some have no drop curb to get a wheelchair off them after the driver lets you off. Ask me how I know). 😂😭
Excellent mowing of the nature strip by the council there too.
How you gonna get a bus stop? They can’t even mow the ordinary nature strip!
Disgraceful, councils are so lazy these days.
Look at the weeds also, that’s a grass fire risk. You drive around so many areas these days and the mainteance of spaces like that is non existent. Even along bloody Alexandra Pde in the city as you get off the Eastern freeway. Those middle sections are full of weeds that are growing into trees.
I’ve lived here since 2018. The bus stops only appeared very recently, so maybe benches will appear although I’m not holding my breath.
Honestly, it’s not as bad as people here make it out to be. I don’t love it, but I do like it. Having a car definitely helps if you need to travel further (e.g. to Pakenham), but there are parks, places to eat, and schools nearby. I can walk to Club Officer for a beer or some pub grub and I feel comfortable raising my family here.
It’s safe and affordable, so I really don’t have many complaints.
Princes Hwy is a state road and managed by VicRoads, council can’t do jack shit with it unfortunately. There is also a buffer around it (not in Officer but in other suburbs) that runs pipelines making changing anything about it a total bureaucratic nightmare.
The name alone is sin worthy, anytime I hear it (including your post) I assume someone is talking to a cop
This is the situation for so many new developments nowadays and it’s appalling.
This is my idea of purgatory
Umm… I never had bus stops growing up. Nobody was hurt
Hey u/twowholebeefpatties — can I share this image elsewhere with attribution?